My "account" shows that I ate my way to almost 78,000 miles. It was sometimes an adventure finding the restaurants in various cities but, thanks to the program, I stumbled across some really good ones. Then. . .there was the one in NYC with the rat problem. It was good while it lasted - at least with One Pass. I'll switch my "eating" to the Alaska program. On a related matter, my program participation offers up - to me, at least - nearly 78,000 reasons why I don't get too upset when Continental in an effort to remain solvent imposes a fee on reward tickets. I'm hardly a high roller but it hasn't been altogether difficult to amass many frequent flyer miles. Sure, I just "paid" about $350 for a pair of reward tickets to Paris and Venice on Air France in business class. When 78,000 of the 200,000 miles used for the tickets arguably came from dining out over a period of years, I just can't get worked up about the fees. If the tickets weren't free, compared to their retail cost they were the next best thing to free. The lunches I bought in the dining program weren't free and I guess I just never expected two business class tickets to Europe to be totally "free" either.